Okay, this is just a for fun thing.
The aim is to design the best adventuring party ever.
The rules are as follows.
Your party must have each of the following in:
- A melee fighter
To be judged on both ability to deal and to withstand damage in mano-a-mano melee combat
- A ranged attacker
To be judged on ability to deal damage at range
- A tracker/ranger/rogue
Tracking, thieving, pickpocketing, hunting, fishing, backup fighting are all useful abilities here
- A cleric (remember, they can be cleric of a cause, so Richard Dawkins could count for the cause of science and reason if you want)
To be judged on ability to keep the party's morale up and keep the moral compass of the team in a fixed position for better or worse. Medical skills a bonus.
- A bard
To be judged on ability to boost morale, compose songs about the party, record their deeds, and of course ability at music and stagecraft.
- Another specialist (filling the usual role of wizard, but we're using real people; a strategist or medic might be optimal here)
To be judged on general usefulness to the party as a whole, based on the skills & weaknesses of the other members
You yourself MUST fulfil one of the roles. The technology used will be fantasy style (assume some basic gunpowder exists, but only hand cannon style), so don't take a specialist based on their ability at driving fast cars. You may pick any real person from human history (be they a famous historical figure, modern celebrity, or even member of this forum) for any of the roles, alive or dead.
You then post your party! You may not use a person someone else has used in the same category so it's first come first served on that front (this also applies to people using themselves, if CG posts first and puts me as his melee fighter I may not then be the melee fighter in my own party).
Once we have a number of entries (say in a week or so), we'll make six polls battling the equivalents from each team against one another to see who the Exilian populace think will win. The team with the best overall score are the winners!
CG's party:
Melee fighter - Jackie Chan
Ranged attacker - Simo Häyhä
Tracker/ranger/rogue - comrade_general
Cleric - Gene Roddenberry
Bard - Mike Rowe
Specialist - Theodore Roosevelt
Melee fighter - King Leonidas of Sparta
Ranged attacker - The young King David
Tracker/ranger/rogue – Bear Grylls
Cleric - Jesus
Bard - Night Angel
Specialist - Nikola Tesla
portugaling dibs on Ray Mears.
Am I allowed Chuck Norris for everything?
No, just for the one Othko. :P
Mine...
Melee fighter - Miyamoto Musashi
Ranged attacker - Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming "Jack" Churchill
Tracker/ranger/rogue – A young Temujin (later Ghengis Khan)
Cleric - Jubal (Cleric of SCIENCE!)
Bard - Steve Knightley
Specialist - Leonardo Da Vinci
Melee Fighter - (dammit jubal stealing the greatest samurai) The Viking on the bridge at the Battle of Stamford Bridge
Ranged Attacker - Pierre (or Peter) Basile, John Sabroz, Dudo, Bertrand de Gurdon (all the same person, then man or boy who shot richard the lionheart)
Tracker/ranger - Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell
Cleric - Dripping D (may you all be touched by his noodlely appendages)
Bard - Hans Zimmer (appropriate backing track for any setting and epicness for any fight scene)
Specialist - Archimedes
Melee fighter - Johannes Liechtenauer
Ranged attacker - Horace Ford or Howard Hill
Tracker/ranger/rogue – Ray Mears
Cleric - Pentagathus the Prophet of Tranquility, Hellfire and Unpredictable Violence (worked pretty well for Moses, the J dawg and Mohammed)
Bard - Jack Black
Specialist - Dr. Jeff Albright who is a doctor and a martial arts instructor so could well be handy in a pinch.
Melee fighter - Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (El Cid)
Ranged attacker - William Tell
Tracker/ranger/rogue - William of Rubruck
Cleric - Sainte Jeanne d'Arc
Bard - Andalus (ego!)
Specialist - Zhuge Liang
OK, I'll start the voting tomorrow. :)